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Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue canadienne d’études américaines 30, no. 1, 2000 Contributors Gamal Abdel-Shehid is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation at the University of Alberta, where he teaches courses in Sport and Popular Culture and Canadian Studies. Tanya Horeck recently completed a PhD in the School of English and American Studies at the University of Sussex in Brighton, England. Her thesis, “More Intimate than Violence: Rape, Feminism and the Civic Bond,” explores representations of rape in contemporary cinema and literature. Kate McInturff recently completed her PhD at the University of British Columbia. She has just completed a project which examines the use of post-structuralism and psychoanalysis in postcolonial theory. Her current work takes up the use of the trope of exile in the same fields. She lives in Vancouver, but as of September 2000, she will be living in Cairo, Egypt. John Sumanth Muthyala is a doctoral candidate in English at Loyola University Chicago. He is currently writing his dissertation on the literatures of the Americas . Some of his articles have appeared or are forthcoming in Journal of Contemporary Thought; In Process: A Journal of African American and African Diasporan Literature and Culture; and Indian Journal of American Studies. Joakim Nilsson is presently completing his doctoral dissertation through the University of Alberta. His dissertation explores the representation of masculinities in several twentieth-century American narratives, historicizing each author’s/director ’s representation of male experience as a means of challenging the critical tradition of universalizing male experience into transhistorical “American themes.” He lives in Tacoma, Washington, where he teaches part-time at two colleges. Lorraine Ouimet is a doctoral student at the University of Florida, writing her dissertation on the use of the supernatural in contemporary African American literature . She is a member of the Computers and Writing Working Group (CWWG) of the University of Florida and is currently working on developing pedagogical approaches to teaching African American texts in the computerized English classroom . ...

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